mons
noun
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
mons
1 American
[monz]
/ mɒnz /
noun
Anatomy.
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montes
plural
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an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
Mons
2
American
[mawn s]
/ mɔ̃s /
noun
Mons.
3
American
abbreviation
Mons
British
/ mɔ̃s /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mons
1615–25; < New Latin; Latin mōns mountain, hill; see mount 2
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Although many of the characters, including the physicians, in “Man’s 4th Best Hospital” are women, and, although Bergman has gotten beyond the trope of nurse as dumb mons, his depiction of gender is still old-fashioned.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
The mountain ranges and individual mountains are labeled with their Latin names, "montes" for mountain ranges and "mons" for individual mountains.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2013
By a vote of 163 to 78 in the House of Com mons, and 38 to 23 in the Senate, Canada's Parliament approved what Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson calls a flag for all Canadians.
From Time Magazine Archive
He then assured Com mons, while Brown sat in a sullen, cross-armed slouch, that he had backing "as a whole" against the arms sales.
From Time Magazine Archive
I quote from Potvin's edition as more accessible than the MSS., but the version of mons is, on the whole, an inferior one.
From From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston
"With existing antibiotics, C. difficile sometimes reappears just weeks after treatment," says researcher and lead author Elma Mons.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
When the surgeon's case came to light, "it provided them with the beginning of an explanation," Ms Mons said.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
"Today, many of these people are understandably very shaken," Ms Mons said.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
The 87-year-old Pontiff, who was taken to a Roman hospital on Wednesday for diagnostic testing after having to cancel some public audiences, handed his speech to his aide, Mons.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
One mountain, a volcano called Olympus Mons, is fifteen miles high and three hundred miles across.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
In 1903 the Nobel prize for physical science was awarded, half to Mons. and Mme.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
"A friend of my brother's came home that way from Mons. It seemed like a hell of a joke. Chaps never know anything, do they?"
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Take my advice, wait upon M. de St. Pouange, who has the power of doing both good and ill; he is Mons. de Louvois's cousin and favorite.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
I bowed respectfully, and was retiring, when he called out in a low and gentle voice— "Before you go, Mons. de Tiernay, I will thank you to restore my snuff-box."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
Then, Mons. le Premier, said the king, by———we’ll go to war with ’em.
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The mountain ranges and individual mountains are labeled with their Latin names, "montes" for mountain ranges and "mons" for individual mountains.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2013
"Parturiunt montes" is an easy verdict to pronounce; it remains to be proved whether in this case it is a just one to render.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
The first syllable of this name appears to be the same as of Cambunii montes, in which the second part is probably the word βοῦνος, which in modern Greek still means “a hill.”
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
These institutions were formed on the model of the montes profani, the system of public debt resorted to by many Italian States.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
Graven upon them were the Latin words, Sic juvat transcendere montes which mean, "Thus it is a pleasure to cross the mountains."
From This Country of Ours by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
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